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George Fly Army Country: USA | Posts: 16813 BurleyJim Fireman Premium Member Posted - 07/08/2020 :  10:42:38 AM     George, I have to 'fess up'. My last comment praising your fine effort, never got posted. And then the forum crashed, hope this doesn't do it again. Jim (I didn't do it!) Take the red pill Country: USA | Posts: 6192 George D Moderator Premium Member Posted - 07/08/2020 :  11:09:34 AM     Thanks, Jim. I hope the forum stays up for a while. George Fly Army Country: USA | Posts: 16813 George D Moderator Premium Member Posted - 07/13/2020 :  8:46:10 PM     I soldered leads for the frogs, so I could check for problems by running a four wheel loco through all the turnouts. I spent some time moving jumper wires around and running and re-running the loco through each switch. I found a couple needed touched up with a file and now I'm happy with the reliability. I took the track outside and cleaned the flux off with acetone and a wire brush. The brush is an aggressive tool, and popped one of the points off the throw rod. That's not bad – I found a durability problem early on. I'm trying to make the trackwork bullet proof. Here's closeup of the clean track. George Fly Army Country: USA | Posts: 16813 BurleyJim Fireman Premium Member Posted - 07/13/2020 :  10:24:56 PM     Nice frogs! Jim Take the red pill Country: USA | Posts: 6192 George D Moderator Premium Member Posted - 07/14/2020 :  08:23:04 AM     Thanks, Jim. Fly Army Country: USA | Posts: 16813 Rick Administrator Premium Member Posted - 07/14/2020 :  08:42:40 AM     Nice work George. I'm sure you'll make bulletproof. Country: USA | Posts: 24360 TRAINS1941 Engineer Premium Member Posted - 07/14/2020 :  08:50:01 AM     Beautiful track work. Jerry "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." A. Lincoln Country: USA | Posts: 13239 Dutchman Administrator Premium Member Posted - 07/14/2020 :  09:01:45 AM     George, testing as you go sure heads off problems down the road when it would harder to tweak the issues. Your track work looks great. Bruce Country: USA | Posts: 33325 Carl B Fireman Premium Member Posted - 07/14/2020 :  09:23:50 AM     Handlaid track and turnouts are the best! And you're doing a fine job George... Silly question: What are the evenly spaced "holes" in your base? Or is it just a work table? Edited by - Carl B on 07/14/2020 09:27:49 AM Country: USA | Posts: 4160 George D Moderator Premium Member Posted - 07/14/2020 :  10:53:16 AM     Thanks for the nice comments, guys. Carl, those are random holes I drill in the work base to hold wooden tabs. The tabs hold everything in place when I'm soldering. George Fly Army Country: USA | Posts: 16813 Carl B Fireman Premium Member Posted - 07/14/2020 :  12:11:52 PM     Thanks George, well, that explains that Country: USA | Posts: 4160 Bernd Fireman Posted - 07/14/2020 :  1:21:07 PM       quote: Originally posted by George D Thanks for the nice comments, guys. Carl, those are random holes I drill in the work base to hold wooden tabs. The tabs hold everything in place when I'm soldering. George HaHa! Learned something new. How to hold down the track while soldering. Neat, plus I won't burn my fingers holding the track in place. Bernd New York, Vermont & Northern Rwy. - Route of the Black Diamonds Country: USA | Posts: 3966 George D Moderator Premium Member Posted - 07/14/2020 :  2:43:06 PM     Bernd, I've used the technique for making the brass frame for a chain link fence. Here's a long fence I made on the club layout. 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